Directions: Drain fruit, reserving syrup in small saucepan. Bring to boil. Reduce
to medium-low. Simmer 4 minutes. Stir in brown sugar and butter; cook
until thickened, stir constantly. Add apricots; heat through. Spoon
over scoops of ice cream. Del Monte introduced canned fruit with spice
and other flavors. These new products essentially work as two
ingredients in one. IDEAS SORBET - freeze two cans of Harvest
Spiced Peaches; run cans under warm water until fruit slips out. Dice
fruit and blend in a food processor. Serve immediately or return to
the freezer and scooped into dessert glasses later. SMOOTHY -
blend Raspberry Flavored Peaches with some of the syrup and vanilla
frozen yogurt PUREED FRUIT - To cut some of the fat from muffins
and to add flavor, puree Almond Flavored Apricot Halves and substitute
the pureed fruit for some of the fat (up to 75%), or for the amount of
liquid called for in a recipe or on a package mix. GENERAL ADVICE
(from Prevention's archives): Experiment. You can reduce fat in baked
goods by using pureed fruit in place of fat. When modifying a recipe,
make changes gradually so that you keep the taste as you make the
recipe more healthful. If your recipe calls for a cup of fat--start by
substituting pureed fruit for one fourth the fat--if you like the
taste, next time substitute a little more. Recipe by: Alice Harding
for Del Monte Foods Posted to EAT-LF Digest by PatHanneman
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